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  • From: "jim allAn" <jallan6977@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] ??no-till??
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:18:45 -0400

Interesting. It brings something to mind. Could cardboard be used to suppress weeds around such crops as tomatoes or peppers. It probably would not be practical for crowded crops like carrots, or would it?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Conine" <dconine@dotnet.com>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] ??no-till??


Hi Paul,
Do you get Countryside magazine? (http://www.countrysidemag.com)
I have read articles about people using mulch methods in there a lot. My
first thought is to suggest you try the newspaper methods first to knock
down the grasses, especially with the transplanted type crops. If you
can get started the fall before, then lay newspapers down where you want
your garden to be next spring. Real thick layer to kill everything.
Then, in the spring, peel them up where you want to plant, put some
compost down, potatoes, then straw (or grass) mulch over the top. Let
the potato sprouts find the soil on their own.
Coffee grounds, chicken litter (will you be able to have a couple of
chickens? or even some chicken feed to encourage earthworms to feed on
moist soil (light layer of newspapers for shade), this should till
things quite nicely for the next year's seeded crops.

Just what popped into my mind from what you seem to be trying to do.

Dan Conine
Belgium,WI
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